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From: gopalan@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Aschwin Gopalan [RHRK])
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Silly question
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.162015.6223@rhrk.uni-kl.de>
Date: 26 Apr 91 16:20:15 GMT
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
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Hi you all!

I have a little problem right here:
I am trying to get some things for my PC out of comp.binaries.ibm.pc. The way
I am doing this must be wrong, because finally I can't get what I want. So if
one of you would be so kind and help a silly old man... It can't be so 
difficult. Anyway, this is what I'm doing:

1.) I get my newsreader (nn) to save the different parts of the file (i.e. the
    articles) into one file.
2.) I run this file through uudecode on the UNIX System down here (SUN OS)
    I am doing this with 'uudecode <filename>' and what I get is a file with
    the extension .zoo
3.) Even though I am really not very bright (so it seems to me) I guess that
    this extension indicates to use the program 'zoo' to unpack the files I
    finally want to have. So I tried two things: first I used the UNIX - 
    version of zoo with the command 'zoo x <filename without extension>'
    It worked fine with the first few files in the archive, but when it
    reached the first .exe file, it stopped with the message: 

      Zoo: FATAL: Invalid or corrupted archive

4.) Then I tried the MS-DOS version of zoo on my PC (yes, I used binary mode
    when ftp'ing the files) and it did just the same.

5.) So I guessed there would be something wrong with this special file and 
    tried a few other ones. But it worked with none of them.

So WHAT ON EARTH AM I DOING what is wrong!

Excuse me very much when this Question is asked every two days on this group,
but I am not reading it regulary and just need some of the things posted in 
comp.binaries.ibm.pc.

So please help me!

Thanks a lot, 
Aki
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|  Aschwin Gopalan         | Universitaet Kaiserslautern                     |
|  gopalan@rhrk.uni-kl.de  |  University of Kaiserslautern, Germany          |
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